Member companies of Carpet Recycling UK (CRUK) report a number of successful initiatives in the reuse of carpets as nonwovens for underlay, construction panels and plastic compounds.
Roydon Polythene, based in Manchester, for example, has carried out trials with carpet materials to demonstrate their suitability for being toll processed into a crumb suitable for compounding into PP pellets.
Polypropylene fibres make up the largest share of domestic carpets in UK and the recovery of these fibres for plastic compounds is an important step forward.
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